State v. Williams

In this appeal, Randy Scott Williams asserts that the district court abused its discretion in imposing a fixed life sentence following Williams’ guilty plea to first degree murder, Idaho Code §§ 18-4001, -4003(a), with a sentencing enhancement for use of a deadly weapon, I.C. § 19-2520.

Williams’ conviction stems from the killing of Damon Knosp, with whom Williams and Tyrel McKnight had engaged in illegal drug transactions. McKnight and Williams became suspicious that Knosp was a police informant after they found telephone numbers of prosecutors and judges in Knosp’s daytimer. 1 Williams and…